X
MOV File
Online Collections

Los Angeles


Details
Names

Los Angeles

L. A.

El Pueblo de la Reyna de Los Angeles

Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula

El Pueblo

Place Type
inhabited place
Description
State's largest city; expanded rapidly during late 19th and early 20th century due to cattle ranching, railroads and motion-picture industry; has suffered several earthquakes, droughts and air pollution; site of many museums, universities and wealthy communities.
Authority
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Source
AAA: California/Nevada (1990); Canby, Historic Places (1984); City Names, Los Angeles Times (2007); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);

Born

Don Bachardy (American, born 1934)

Sanford Biggers (American, born 1970)

James Brown (American, born 1951)

Jedd Garet (American, born 1955)

Conrad Gleber (American, born 1949)

Bob Haozous (American and Warm Springs Chiricahua Apache, born 1943)

Madeline Janovec (American, 1935-2011)

Nancy Reddin Kienholz (American, born 1943)

Norman Lundin (American, born 1938)

Richard Misrach (American, born 1949)

Rick Regan (American, born 1940)

Leland Rice (American, born 1940)

Glenn Rudolph (American, born 1946)

Eduardo Sarabia (American, born 1976)

Steven Steinman (American, born 1951)

Brett Weston (American, 1911-1993)

Cole Weston (American, 1919-2003)

Taro Yamamoto (American, 1919-1994)

Active

Lynn Aldrich (American, born 1944)

Thomas Michael Alleman (American, born 1958)

Lynda Benglis (American, born 1941)

Billy Al Bengston (American, born 1934)

Donald Blumberg (American, born 1935)

Andrea Bowers (American, born 1965)

William Brice (American, 1921-2008)

Cirrus Editions, Ltd. (American)

John E. Clifford (American, born 1943)

Mary Corse (American, born 1945)

Mitch Dobrowner (American, born 1956)

Chris Engman (American, born 1978)

Anne Fishbein (American, born 1964)

Lee Norman Friedlander (American, born 1934)

Douglas Hill (Canadian, born England, active United States, born 1950)

David Hockney (English, active United States, born 1937)

Corita Kent (American, 1918-1986)

Edward Kienholz (American, 1927-1994)

Richard Kraft (American, active 20th and 21st centuries)

Sydney Laurence (American, 1865-1940)

Rico Lebrun (American, born Italy, 1900-1964)

Fletcher Martin (American, 1904-1979)

John McLaughlin (American, 1898-1976)

Betty Merken (American, born 1947)

Jim Morphesis (American, born 1948)

Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine (American, born 1967)

Gertrud Natzler (Austrian, active United States, 1908-1971)

Timothy Nolan (American, born 1962)

Paul Outerbridge (American, 1896-1958)

John Outterbridge (American, 1933-2020)

Astrid Preston (American, born Sweden, born 1945)

Edward Ruscha (American, born 1937)

Christian Schumann (American, born 1970)

Akio Takamori (Japanese and American, 1950–2017)

Sara Terry (American, active 20th century)

Patricia Topping (American, born 1924)

Albert Winn (American, 1947-2014)

Died

Anne W. Brigman (American, 1869-1950)

Hans Burkhardt (American, born Switzerland, 1904-1994)

Edward Sheriff Curtis (American, 1868-1952)

Charles Garabedian (American, 1923-2016)

Matsumi Kanemitsu (American, 1922-1992)

R.B. Kitaj (American, 1932-2007)

Otto Natzler (Austrian and American, 1908-2007)

Maury Nemoy (American, 1912-1984)

Julius Shulman (American, 1910-2009)

Karl Struss (American, 1886-1981)

June Wayne (American, 1918-2011)

Leigh Wiener (American, 1929-1993)

Emerson Woelffer (American, 1914-2003)

Max Yavno (American, 1911-1985)

Related Artworks
Media
IMLS logoNEA logoNEH logo

The Portland Art Museum’s Online Collections site is brought to you thanks to support provided by the State of Oregon through its second Culture, History, Arts, Movies, and Preservation funding program and generous awards from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts.